Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be! Luigi Pirandello More Quotes by Luigi Pirandello More Quotes From Luigi Pirandello We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. Luigi Pirandello wall waiting moving We think we understand each other, but we never really do. Luigi Pirandello thinking The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. Luigi Pirandello concepts secret life We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think. Luigi Pirandello beast animal thinking Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them. Luigi Pirandello women dream way Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it? Luigi Pirandello opinion way It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love. Luigi Pirandello someone-you-love respect hands THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do. Luigi Pirandello men father lying When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself. Luigi Pirandello self-love humanity love-you When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right. Luigi Pirandello ifs happiness men Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. Luigi Pirandello environmental nature imagination I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth. Luigi Pirandello hate order art A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist. Luigi Pirandello may order science If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you. Luigi Pirandello ivory-tower approval laughing When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him. Luigi Pirandello independence giving character Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. Luigi Pirandello knowing men life Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Luigi Pirandello character men death Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Luigi Pirandello heroic gentleman time Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes Luigi Pirandello life-sucks sharks life-is-like Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. Luigi Pirandello goes-on heart men
